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Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Vacation, Chain of Command and crowd funding

Been
at the summer place in the Stockholm archipelago for the last four weeks, so
updating has been rather low. No models, no paints and no reliable internet
connection, meaning nothing much has happened on the modelling front.

Sunset from the island

But
I’m back in town now and itching to paint and do wargaming stuff.

First
off I have started to unpack some Terraclips dungeons, and you will see reviews
of all of their terrain shortly.

I
didn’t jump on the Call
of Cthulhu Indiegogo campaign, it just didn’t take off. Unfortunate, but I
think their set-up asked for it, it was simply dangerous to jump in early. They
made a somewhat better deal, but not enough to spark interest. I might buy some of their
miniatures when they become available, though.

Still
waiting for my stuff from the Otherworld
Indiegogo. Hugely disappointed at Otherworld at the moment. Why?

- Shipments
are delayed. First batch should have started shipping in January. That could be
OK, but the thing is that shipments of the first of two packs started about
five months ago, and it is still not finished. We’re talking about less than
250 backers, so he’s sent about two packets a day…

- Communication
– or rather lack off. Very infrequent updates on the campaign homepage, not
good when you’re massively late. Also no mail to the backers when he has sent a
parcel. So, maybe he sent mine five months ago and it got lost.

- You
can now buy a lot of the figures in Otherworld’s shop. This is, I think, a
deadly sin for crowd funding. Your backers should get their stuff before you
start to sell them.

So I’m not happy about this, which is unfortunate as I really like what Otherworld produces.

Some
good news. Too Fat Lardies will release
their new platoon-size wargames rules Chain of Command on August 21st.
Absolutely recommended, and you can find a lot of information on how it plays
from their Lard Island News blog,
among other things a few very informative videos.

At
the moment they take advance orders that seem to get good value for your money.
I just ordered the Big Bundle and look forward to the PDF on the 21st
and the dead-tree version a couple of days later.

3 comments:

I agree that putting crowdfunded merchandise in your shop before your backers get them is poor taste. It's also pretty dumb and short sighted since the backers that didn't get their stuff early will not back your next project.

Good work ordering the big bundle. Will you then be using 28mm figures since you got the jump off points?

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